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NOAA NCDC United States Historical Climatology Network

NOAA NCDC United States Historical Climatology Network: Monthly averaged maximum, minimum, and mean temperature and total monthly precipitation from stations in the United States.

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Datasets and variables

NOAA NCDC USHCN cfv[Max mean prcp Min ]

NOAA NCDC USHCN filnet[Max mean prcp Min calc_mean ]



NOAA NCDC USHCN raw[Max mean prcp Min ]


NOAA NCDC USHCN tos[Max mean prcp Min calc_mean ]
NOAA NCDC USHCN urban[Max mean Min calc_mean ]

Independent Variables (Grids)

StationID grid: /ID (ids) ordered [ (17366)] :grid
time grid: /T (months since 1960-01-01) ordered (0011 1 Jan 1695 - 0011 1 Feb 1695) to (Dec 1996) by 0.9999999 N= 3624 pts :grid

References

Karl, T.R., C.N. Williams, Jr., F.T. Quinlan, and T.A. Boden, 1990: United States Historical Climatology Network (HCN) Serial Temperature and Precipitation Data, Environmental Science Division, Publication No. 3404, Carbon Dioxide Information and Analysis Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, 389 pp.

Last updated: Mon, 12 Sep 2016 21:27:44 GMT

Data Views

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NOAA[NODC NCEP-DOE PSL NCEI NCEP-NCAR NCEP NESDIS NCDC ESRL NGDC ]
NOAA NCEP-NCAR[Reference_Data CDAS-1 ]
NOAA NCEP-NCAR CDAS-1[mc9120 pc6190 pc7100 pc8110 pc9120 MONTHLY mc7100 pc9920 DAILY mc8110 mc6190 pc9913 ]
NOAA NCEP-NCAR CDAS-1 MONTHLY Intrinsic[MSL surface total_air_column PressureLevel ]
NOAA NCDC USHCN[tos cfv filnet urban raw statediv Name elev lat lon state ]